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Nov. 4, 2008 -- Barack Obama will be our new POTUS!! Everyone excited about this. We spent elective night at a party next door with Rob Stein and Ellen Perry and some friends (Dan and Gigi Green -- former ABC Producer of Nightline and others). Stock Market crashing -- no one seems to know when bottom will come
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Nov. 8, 2008 -- I presented an award post-humously to Paul Rogers at an Arthritis Foundation black tie gala. Steve Lawton (his longtime
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Nov. 10, 2008 -- Stock market still crashing -- no end in sight. Big Federal bailouts of banks and credit companies to the tune of $1 trillion and more; yet slide continues.
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Nov. 14, 2008 -- I receive the "FREDDIE Award" for Public Service (known as the Oscars for medical media) from MediMedia at a Philadelphia Gala at the Crystal Tea Room in the old Wannamaker Building. Chris, Megan, Ali, Stewart Simonson, Cliff Lane, Patty Conrad, and her friend Betsy Wilder were there. Big surprise was that Bono made a video that was shown in which he lauded me as a true global hero and one of the most important people in the world over the past many decades. Very flattering and in keeping with how kind Bono has been to me over the years.
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Anthony S. Fauci
Nov. 18, 2008 -- Received the VIDA Award for Leadership from the National Hispanic Health Alliance at the Willard Hotel in DC.
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Nov. 19, 2008 -- Tom Daschle named as DHHS Secretary. I will soon be approached for NIH Director job. Am struggling with this, but my commitment to HIV/AIDS and Global Health, particularly with the new exciting issues of "treatment as prevention" and the challenges of an AIDS vaccine , not to mention malaria and TB keep me engrossed in what I am doing.
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Nov. 20, 2008 -- NIAID sponsors the Annual Kinyoun Lecture. This year's speaker was Ralph Steinman who won the Basic Medical Research Lasker Award in 2007 at the time that I won the Lasker Public Service Award.
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Nov. 20, 2008 -- See below -- soon to appear in US News and World Report America's Best Leaders: Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Nov. 21, 2008 - Went to dinner party at Ellen and Gerry Sigal's home. Present were Chris Grady, Ellen, Gerry, Richard and Donna Benveniste, Bill and Melody Wilson, Larry and Carla Silverstein, Neera Tanden and husband Dan. Neera is on the Obama transition team and I am sure that Ellen in her quest to get me to become NIH Director set this up for us to meet. I am very reluctant to take the job and soon I will likely have to tell the Obama people "no" if they ask. Prior to the Sigal dinner party I gave remarks at the opening reception for the TAG Workshop on Eliminating Viral Persistence and Eradicating HIV infection. This is becoming a very hot issue that I have been pushing in the sense of a "functional" cure.